Features

37 Aide-mémoire
Franco-American female creative leaders find inspiration from their heritage.
By Rhea Côté Robbins

40 Food & Wine Duets
What happens when cantaloupe soup and a Loire Valley white wine collide?
By Karen E. Hofreiter

47 Breaking Away
Lewiston-native Patrick Dempsey likes his lobsters steamed, his cars fast, and taking on a Challenge for a good cause.
Interview by Colin W. Sargent

51 A Pig Tale
Where did E. B. White bury Wilbur?
By Andrew Reiner

54 Industrial Arts
Local artists’ co-ops and collectives provide space for expanding the mind.
By Jeanee Dudley

57 Bird Calling
Artist Susan Talbot carves hunting accoutrements into works of art.
By Felicia Knight

59 Name Game
The Old Port’s strangest drinking game: “How many former identities of your bank can you name?”
By Karen E. Hofreiter

Cover: Patrick Dempsey by Julian Broad/©Disney

Departments

10 From the Editor

12 Letters

14 Imperatifs

Special Section

16 Art Walk Guide

31 Goings On

35 Chowder

66 Dining Guide

67 Restaurant Review
Pedro’s: High-concept Mexican in Kennebunk’s Lower Village

77 2011 Guide to Wellness

81 House of the Month
“Foreside Revisited”
For $2.2 million, the toast of Mussel Cove

85 New England
Homes & Living

93 Fiction
“Fall with Edie”
By Dan Domench

96 Flash